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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






2. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






3. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






4. Individual Educational Plan






5. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






6. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






7. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






8. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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9. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






10. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






11. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






12. Ability to understand and express spoken language






13. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






14. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






15. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






16. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






17. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






18. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






19. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






20. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






21. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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22. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






23. English as a second language






24. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






25. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






26. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






27. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






28. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






29. Feeling through fingertips






30. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






31. Final stable syllable

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32. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






33. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






34. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






35. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






36. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






37. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






38. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






39. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






40. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






41. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






42. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






43. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






44. Academic Language Therapy Association






45. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






46. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






47. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






48. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






49. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






50. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children